He's got a ring with President Lincoln's face cut on it--a cameo.
I'd like to find _him_. But you see I haven't any way of finding either
of them. The only thing I'm sure about is that the dead sailor couldn't
have worn the ring. His finger had been gone many years, that's sure. So
what are we going to do about it? I guess we'll go to bed. But that isn't
getting us anywhere, is it?
Funny, hey? Kind of a mystery after all-Skeezeks.
I guess every one of us lay awake thinking about it that night. Anyway, I
know I did. And most all the time till the day we got home, we kept talking
about it. Harry Donnelle would always laugh and say maybe there wasn't
anything to it at all and that if he knew who the sailor was, he'd go and
give the money to his people-probably.
He said he guessed the camp-fire up at Temple Camp was what started him
seeing pictures. But always he would say how it was funny that a man
without his second finger should have that letter on him. But he said that
as long as there wasn't any finger, it couldn't point anywheres, and we
should worry.
But just the same all the way home, whenever we started a camp-fire, we'd
look into it and kind of see an old soldier with white hair and a blue
coat and then we'd see a young fellow, wearing khaki, and a ring with
Lincoln's head cut on it.
Pages:
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86